Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to his friend and Lightbend CTO Jonas Bonér (@jboner) about his epic, aspect-oriented, distributed, and reactive work over the decades, about the cooperation with the Spring team on the Reactive Streams, the Reactive Foundation, and more.

• Check out the upcoming Reactive Summit! Both Jonas and Josh will be speaking there :-)

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the third milestone of Spring Boot 2.4 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

This release closes 160 issues and pull requests. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Highlights of this milestone include:

• Java 15 support
• A new Startup actuator endpoint
• Docker authentication support
• Config data import improvements
• Numerous dependency upgrades

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.4 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation…

I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.3.0-RC1 is now available from our milestone repository.

What’s New?

This release comes with a number of new features that you can find in the release notes, but here are the major highlights:

1. GraalVM Support

A lot of work has already been done in Spring Framework to support running some types of Spring applications on GraalVM. In this release, we made changes in Spring Batch to correctly run Batch applications on GraalVM as well.

The support is still experimental, so we encourage you to give the release a try and share your feedback.

2. Java…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.4 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 61 bug fixes, enhancements, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Please note that version of Spring Framework that is used by this release of Spring Boot contains a fix for a security vulnerability (CVE-2020-5421).

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.10 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 72 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Please note that version of Spring Framework that is used by this release of Spring Boot contains a fix for a security vulnerability (CVE-2020-5421).

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.17 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 22 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Please note that version of Spring Framework that is used by this release of Spring Boot contains a fix for a security vulnerability (CVE-2020-5421).

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter…

Dear Spring community,

please, meet the third (and the last) milestone for Spring Integration 5.4 generation.

It can be downloaded from our milestone repository:

compile 'org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.4.0-M3'

Since the previous milestone 2 this release brings number of bug fixes and some internal improvement, including alignment with new Sink API from project Reactor in the FluxMessageChannel and IntegrationReactiveUtils.

See What’s New in documentation for more information.

This version is going to be pulled in the upcoming Spring Boot 2.4.0-M3 release tomorrow.

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On behalf of the community and everyone who has contributed, it's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 2.0.5.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release by reporting bugs and opening pull requests.

This maintenance release includes a small number of fixes and documentation improvements. It is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs 2.x users.

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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.8.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

This release includes major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2020-09 release
• requires a JDK11 to run on
• ships with an embedded JDK14 runtime, no need to install or configure a specific JDK to run the IDE on anymore
• includes Eclipse Docker tooling by default now (in addition to the nice docker integration for the Spring Boot Dashboard)
• includes Wild Web Developer tooling now (#354), including advanced support for JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and more
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